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April 02, 2007

Call me a killjoy

But I hate April the first. The entire web seems to be shutdown with simply lame "hoaxes". It's particularly sad if you live west of the date line, because you read them all on the second of april anyway.

So, I hereby call for an April First moratorium. No more lame April first "pranks" people. Please.

Hehe... I'm only 6-8 hours behind the big ol' US, but the simplebits logo-rip-off thing got old a bit too fast. Other than that, I don't mind original hoaxes (I liked WebKit->Trident, other than it being too obvious), but I don't go out of my way to trick others.

He he - well I think because of where we live, we really get TWO days worth of April Fools; ridiculous! I only fell for one or two - most of them people pointed out to me, preppended with "Check out this AFJ":

I think Homer Simpson said it best "You couldn't fool your mother on the foolingest day of your life if you had an electrified fooling machine"

Posted by: Andy | Apr 4, 2007 5:22:06 PM

Amen Andy

My gripe is the lameness of almost all the so called "hoaxes", though I think that the prank pulled on Dan Cederholm (which I saw after writing the initial post) was pretty good. That one nearly got me, I saw one of the pages which I didn't know, and almost emailed Dan, but then I kinda twigged.

A good April Fool's joke must be plausible, and then hopefully elicit some kind of public behavior based on people believing it. Googles Toilet ISP is a great example of a lame "prank".